Tim Harford: Without my fitness tracker I’d never have run so far. Or behaved so weirdly

Twenty-five centuries ago, after the Greeks shattered the Persian army at Marathon, brave Pheidippides ran 26 miles to Athens ...

The Algorithm Convinced Me I Wasn’t Beautiful—Then I Paid an Artist $800 to Paint Me

Little did I know the antidote to my self-conscious doomscrolling would be as simple as sitting still long enough to be truly ...

Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

First-of-its-Kind Technology Helps Man With ALS ‘Speak’ in Real Time

The man is enrolled in the BrainGate2 clinical trial at UC Davis Health. His ability to communicate through a computer has ...